Don Quixote : A Delusional Knight, a Skeptical Squire, and the Windmills That Started It All
An aging country gentleman reads one too many chivalric romances, loses his grip on reality, and sets out to become a knight-errant — recruiting a bewildered farmer as his squire and mistaking windmills for giants, inns for castles, and sheep for armies. What starts as a joke about a man who can't tell fiction from life becomes something stranger: a portrait of stubborn idealism that refuses to stop being funny, or moving.
Widely considered the first modern novel — the book that invented the idea of a character whose inner delusion is more interesting than the world around him, and that has shaped every unreliable hero since.
An aging country gentleman reads one too many chivalric romances, loses his grip on reality, and sets out to become a knight-errant — recruiting a bewildered farmer as his squire and mistaking windmills for giants, inns for castles, and sheep for armies. What starts as a joke about a man who can't tell fiction from life becomes something stranger: a portrait of stubborn idealism that refuses to stop being funny, or moving.
Widely considered the first modern novel — the book that invented the idea of a character whose inner delusion is more interesting than the world around him, and that has shaped every unreliable hero since.
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